Variations on a theme: exploring understandings of the marketisation concept in civil society research

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International Review of Sociology-Revue Internationale de Sociologie Pub Date : 2020-09-01 DOI:10.1080/03906701.2020.1853004

Anna Mankell, Johan Hvenmark

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ABSTRACT It is, today, widely accepted that market structures, logics, identities and activities are spreading throughout society, including civil society and its organisations. Scholars increasingly use the marketisation concept to describe these tendencies. This paper reviews the meaning attached to this concept, when used in the context of civil society. A sample of 210 peer-reviewed articles in civil society studies published between 1993 and 2017 is explored in an analysis that suggests that marketisation is being used with much variation in the literature. The analysis also shows that apart from more generic descriptions of persistent attempts to privatise and commodify various goods and services, few articles seem to involve more detailed definitions or profound conceptual arguments. Taken together, this indicates a development where the concept of marketisation runs the risk of losing its analytical powers. To avoid this, the paper proposes a stricter and more transparent use of the term ‘marketisation’ and suggests ways to further develop this concept in research.

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主题变奏:探索市民社会研究中对市场化概念的理解

如今，人们普遍认为，市场结构、逻辑、身份和活动正在遍及整个社会，包括公民社会及其组织。学者们越来越多地使用市场化的概念来描述这些趋势。本文回顾了这一概念在公民社会语境下的含义。在一项分析中，对1993年至2017年间发表的210篇同行评议的民间社会研究文章的样本进行了探讨，该分析表明，市场化的使用在文献中存在很大差异。分析还表明，除了对各种货物和服务私有化和商品化的持续企图作较为一般性的描述外，似乎很少有文章涉及更详细的定义或深刻的概念论证。综上所述，这表明了一种发展趋势，即市场化的概念有可能失去其分析能力。为了避免这种情况，本文提出了更严格和更透明的术语“市场化”的使用，并提出了在研究中进一步发展这一概念的方法。

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期刊介绍： International Review of Sociology is the oldest journal in the field of sociology, founded in 1893 by Ren Worms. Now the property of Rome University, its direction has been entrusted to the Faculty of Statistics. This choice is a deliberate one and falls into line with the traditional orientation of the journal as well as of the Institut International de Sociologie. The latter was the world"s first international academic organisation of sociology which started as an association of contributors to International Review of Sociology. Entrusting the journal to the Faculty of Statistics reinforces the view that sociology is not conceived apart from economics, history, demography, anthropology and social psychology.